Animavore wrote:That Trump will ban Muslims has disappeared from his website.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 08466.html

After speculation rose that Melania Trump did not not complete her university degree, her biography page was taken down and started to redirect to Mr Trump’s golf course.

Animavore wrote:Trump appoints climate denialist to lead EPA transition (read; dismantling).

https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... ransition/

Animavore wrote:

KeenIdiot wrote:His 100 days plan:
http://www.npr.org/2016/11/09/501451368 ... t-100-days

Ah yes. Carve out the natural resources to all this pals like the Koch Brothers. Go full steam ahead with pipelines through native lands. Deregulate. Cut red tape for the FDA, ie; deregulation for Big Pharma so they can pump out unapproved drugs. And so on....

But... But... Trump is anti-Wall Street. Am I right?



You've been fucking duped!

• a 5 year-ban on White House and Congressional officials becoming lobbyists after they leave government service;
• a lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government;
• a complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.
• I will announce our withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership
• Clean up Corruption in Washington Act. Enacts new ethics reforms to Drain the Swamp and reduce the corrupting influence of special interests on our politics.

WayOfTheDodo wrote:Yeah, Trump is an Establishment man and will cater to the interests of the rich and powerful who keep screwing over regular people. There are some promising things in there, though:

• a 5 year-ban on White House and Congressional officials becoming lobbyists after they leave government service;
• a lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government;
• a complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.
• I will announce our withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership
• Clean up Corruption in Washington Act. Enacts new ethics reforms to Drain the Swamp and reduce the corrupting influence of special interests on our politics.

Sorkin Girls,

Well the world changed late last night in a way I couldn’t protect us from. That’s a terrible feeling for a father. I won’t sugarcoat it—this is truly horrible. It’s hardly the first time my candidate didn’t win (in fact it’s the sixth time) but it is the first time that a thoroughly incompetent pig with dangerous ideas, a serious psychiatric disorder, no knowledge of the world and no curiosity to learn has.

...

Second, we get out of bed. The Trumpsters want to see people like us (Jewish, “coastal elites,” educated, socially progressive, Hollywood…) sobbing and wailing and talking about moving to Canada. I won’t give them that and neither will you. Here’s what we’ll do…

…we’ll fucking fight. (Roxy, there’s a time for this kind of language and it’s now.) We’re not powerless and we’re not voiceless. We don’t have majorities in the House or Senate but we do have representatives there. It’s also good to remember that most members of Trump’s own party feel exactly the same way about him that we do. We make sure that the people we sent to Washington—including Kamala Harris—take our strength with them and never take a day off.

We get involved. We do what we can to fight injustice anywhere we see it—whether it’s writing a check or rolling up our sleeves. Our family is fairly insulated from the effects of a Trump presidency so we fight for the families that aren’t. We fight for a woman to keep her right to choose. We fight for the First Amendment and we fight mostly for equality—not for a guarantee of equal outcomes but for equal opportunities. We stand up.

...

The battle isn’t over, it’s just begun. Grandpa fought in World War II and when he came home this country handed him an opportunity to make a great life for his family. I will not hand his granddaughter a country shaped by hateful and stupid men. Your tears last night woke me up, and I’ll never go to sleep on you again.

Love,

Dad

WayOfTheDodo wrote:
[*]a lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government;

WayOfTheDodo wrote:
[*]Clean up Corruption in Washington Act. Enacts new ethics reforms to Drain the Swamp and reduce the corrupting influence of special interests on our politics.[/list]

Morning After To-Do List:

1. Take over the Democratic Party and return it to the people. They have failed us miserably.

2. Fire all pundits, predictors, pollsters and anyone else in the media who had a narrative they wouldn't let go of and refused to listen to or acknowledge what was really going on. Those same bloviators will now tell us we must "heal the divide" and “come together.” They will pull more hooey like that out of their ass in the days to come. Turn them off.

3. Any Democratic member of Congress who didn’t wake up this morning ready to fight, resist and obstruct in the way Republicans did against President Obama every day for eight full years must step out of the way and let those of us who know the score lead the way in stopping the meanness and the madness that's about to begin.

4. Everyone must stop saying they are “stunned” and “shocked.” What you mean to say is that you were in a bubble and weren’t paying attention to your fellow Americans and their despair. YEARS of being neglected by both parties, the anger and the need for revenge against the system only grew. Along came a TV star they liked whose plan was to destroy both parties and tell them all “You're fired!” Trump’s victory is no surprise. He was never a joke. Treating him as one only strengthened him. He is both a creature and a creation of the media and the media will never own that.

5. You must say this sentence to everyone you meet today: “HILLARY CLINTON WON THE POPULAR VOTE!” The MAJORITY of our fellow Americans preferred Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. Period. Fact. If you woke up this morning thinking you live in an effed-up country, you don’t. The majority of your fellow Americans wanted Hillary, not Trump. The only reason he’s president is because of an arcane, insane 18th-century idea called the Electoral College. Until we change that, we’ll continue to have presidents we didn’t elect and didn’t want. You live in a country where a majority of its citizens have said they believe there’s climate change, they believe women should be paid the same as men, they want a debt-free college education, they don’t want us invading countries, they want a raise in the minimum wage and they want a single-payer true universal health care system. None of that has changed. We live in a country where the majority agree with the “liberal” position. We just lack the liberal leadership to make that happen (see: #1 above). Let's try to get this all done by noon today. -- Michael Moore

Caper wrote:Thanks ES.

Make America (and the world) Smart Again - starting with understanding how con artists work!

chairman bill wrote:And that's why the Democrats should have run with Bernie Sanders, not Clinton.

Sendraks wrote:

chairman bill wrote:And that's why the Democrats should have run with Bernie Sanders, not Clinton.

Yes but, as others here have already analysed in detail, Bernie should have run a better campaign to engage with voters. His campaign was actually pretty poor at the "feet on the ground" engagement and his support mainly came from those already signed up to Bernie's message. Sure the DNC didn't help matters but, its clear Bernie didn't run as robust a campaign as he could have.